One night while giving a concert I had a disaster happen. One of my Shaller guitar tuning pegs just came off. As you know there's a little screw in the tuner button which should be kept tight, and I guess it had just come loose and fallen out....the button came off in my hand.

My trusty Swiss Army knife was in the dressing room and so I just asked if anyone in the audience had one. At least half the folks raised their hands! I was amazed. We all ended up having quite a bit of fun (after I'd used one to screw the tuner back on) with the whole psychology of owning Swiss Army knives...and whether anyone had actually USED the ruler, the sewing thingy, and of course.....THE FISH SCALER!

To my amazement, at least one person admitted to having used each of them at least once.

I'm on my third one now (the other two were stolen) and for the first time I'm thinking of being disloyal to the Swiss Government and actually buying one of those "Leatherman" things.....'cause the plyers really work. I'd miss the toothpick, magnifying glass, crappy tweezers, tiny pen, and mostly the "mystique" though.

I noticed that night that the guys seemed to need the real "big jobbies" (I've always bought the super deluxe one that weighs a ton) and the women seemed to prefer the ones with only twenty or so functions. Probably Freudian, 'cause after the concert at least five guys (and moi) were "comparing" our knives!!

Any "Swiss Army" tales?

Cheers

Rick